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11-letter words containing g, r, o, w

  • new georgia — a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.
  • newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
  • non-working — not employed for a salary, fees, or wages; not producing or generating income: Our employee medical plan also covers nonworking spouses.
  • orangewoman — a female member of the Orangemen
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
  • over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
  • overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
  • overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
  • overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
  • overweening — presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • power surge — an unexpected, temporary increase in the current or voltage of an electrical circuit
  • red dogwood — a Eurasian dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, having greenish-white flowers and dark-red branches.
  • reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
  • rose grower — a person who grows rose plants
  • rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • sightworthy — worth seeing
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
  • spring snow — corn snow.
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • sword grass — any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
  • through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
  • tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
  • virgin wool — wool not previously used in manufacture
  • wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
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